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Although traditionally defined as a literate environment, Western monastic culture depended on a range of communicative practices which was just as large, and in some ways more sophisticated in its diversity, than that of other groups of society. Monks and nuns exchanged considerable amounts of information for which no written media were deemed necessary or which did not make a complete or immediate transition into written sources. Grouped in five thematic chapters, the papers in this volume aim to provide inroads into a useable interpretation of the various contexts in which monks and nuns in the central Middle Ages considered the spoken word as a vital complementary medium to other forms of communication.

Christian spirituality --- anno 500-1499 --- Europe --- Monastic and religious life --- Oral communication --- Vie religieuse et monastique --- Communication orale --- History --- Congresses --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Congrès --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Europe [Western ] --- To 1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Monastic and religious life - Europe - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 - Congresses --- Oral communication - Religious aspects - Christianity - Congresses --- Monastic life --- Spirituality (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Spiritual life --- Vows

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The role of monastic institutions in society during the Central Middle Ages has been much debated in medieval studies. Some scholars saw monasticism as the principal motivator of economic, social, intellectual and spiritual' progress in human society, while others regarded monastic ideology as fundamentally anti-social and oriented towards itself. Today monasticism is studied as a social entity which needed interactions with the outside world, not only to subsist in a physical sense, but also to give a clear sense of purpose to its members. This volume seeks to identify some of the major questions that will dominate research into monasticism in the years to come. Contributions deal with the evolution of monasticism itself, its links with aristocracy, the economic relations of religious communities and their physical and ideological bounderies, and the representation of the outside world in monastic manuscripts.

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History as a science --- Middle Ages --- Europe, Western --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- History --- Sources. --- Historiography. --- anno 500-1499 --- Medievalists --- Historiography